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Centre for Evidence Based Youth Services
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The research centre is based at Queen's University Belfast and is delivered in partnership with the Education Authority for Northern Ireland
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How can we better explain why so many in the criminal justice system have trauma backgrounds (& why so many with trauma backgrounds aren’t)?

In my new book I theorise the link between adversity, trauma & violent offending, proposing a deprivation framework:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Theorising Trauma and Offending
This book synthesises trauma and criminological literature and augments it with the author’s own experience and research
link.springer.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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New paper out in BMJ Public Health ⤵️ We show that extrafamilial violence is an overlooked driver of MH in Northern Ireland. If ACE frameworks don’t include community violence, they’re incomplete.

bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...

#PublicHealth #Trauma #MentalHealth #ACEs #ViolencePrevention
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November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM